[popdrop] H1: Spectre & Poppy

[warpweft]

[The first thing you notice is how dark it is. It’s really, really stinkin’ dark. You can’t see anything. Even if you naturally have the ability to see in the dark, well, not anymore. Which may be the second thing you notice - any powers you have, any magic is gone. Silenced. You can’t feel it, similarly to when you’re in the theme park, with an additional sense of anxiety and loss surrounding the inability to tap into it. Even a heightened sense of emotion won’t bring them back, like it might in the theme park. If you have other powers of some kind, enhanced physical capabilities or the like, they’re either gone or significantly reduced as well. You feel extremely normal and it doesn’t feel good.]

[Whether you stay still or stumble along in the dark, at least it’s not too long. You eventually catch notice of something illuminating the darkness. You find yourself drawn to it. It's a small spherical glass object. Near the edges, it's black, but bits of purple and violet appear, gradually brightening and swirling together in a spiral shape at the center. The spiral at the center is bright enough to bathe you and the surroundings in a soft violet light. As you get closer, you can feel voices coming from the sphere. You can’t tell what they’re saying, but maybe if you were closer. You feel a deep desire in your stomach to just…reach out….]

What are you doing?

[The voice, a woman’s voice, comes from behind you. You didn’t hear anybody approaching, but you’re immediately filled with an intense sense of foreboding. You turn and look, but you can’t see anything. The darkness is once again overpowering, the violet glow from the object next to you being the only thing that isn’t swallowed up by it. All you can make out in the darkness is what may be someone’s face and…two eyes. With nothing in them. Pitch-black.]

You touched the Heart…

You touched MY Heart!?

[There’s a lot of anger and it’s not making that sense of foreboding go away. The darkness and the person(?) inside it advance towards you, slowly engulfing the violet glow around you. Just when you’re thinking you’re gonna have to decide between fight or flight, here — something moves.

Towards you.

You feel something punch into your chest and before you know it, you’re on the ground, searing pain running through your upper body. A few things briefly pass through your senses. You hear a loud scream. If you tilt your head up, you can see a long black spike…embedded in your own chest. And you can taste… …yup. That’s your own blood.

That’s about as far as you get before consciousness leaves you.]

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INTRO

[voidhearts]

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[CH-THUNK]

[You feel a jolt run through your entire body, jarring you awake and making you take in a sudden, deep breath and sit up straight. Immediately followed by falling back down. You feel a sensation similar to floating in water. Looking up at the sky above you, it’s dark. There’s almost no stars that you can see and no sun or moon or anything up there, but, you still don’t have any trouble seeing anything. Beneath you is a vast ocean of…space. You can see stars, mostly purple and violet, but some in other colors, even a few bright white drifting through the ocean around you. Most of the light illuminating the area comes from a lightly swirling vortex at the center. You can move, bobbing lightly in the space around you, if you wish, it seems similar to water, without the part where it makes you wet. The pain in your chest may be gradually dulling away but it’s definitely still there, though, so you may wanna wait a few minutes to move too much.]

’Please try not to move too much. I’m almost done.

[Someone else is there with you. It’s. ]

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[voidhearts]

[Oh. It’s. A vaguely humanoid shaped blob of darkness with no facial features except two big yellow eyes. It had a hand (its digits ending in fairly sharp claw-like appendages) extended towards your chest, which it pulls back if you start to move. Your chest is currently…uncovered. Whatever you were wearing is either opened up or outright discarded and floating in a small pile next to you. And where you were struck in the chest earlier has been covered up with a small object, a sphere with a glass shell and lights swirling in a spiral shape near the center. It’s similar to the one you saw before, but different. The lights inside are of a different color, perhaps your team’s color, perhaps a color significant to you for some other reason. Whatever it is and whatever color it is, the sphere is part of your body, now. It doesn’t hurt and its presence seems to be what’s slowly dulling the pain in, well, most of the rest of your body.]

’I imagine you have questions.’

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[taking_pains]

[He takes all this in with a few careful back and forth sweeps of his gaze, expression wary. He reaches up, careful, to touch the sphere]

I do.

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[voidhearts]

[A small blue light flickers where your finger makes contact with the sphere, then travels into the spiral in the center.]

'Ask. I will answer to the best of my ability.'

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[taking_pains]

Are you the one who healed me?

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[voidhearts]

'I am.'

’The object you saw before is known as the Voidheart. It’s a very potent piece of magic that connects my realm, the Void, to other realms. After you were attacked, I created a facsimile of it to resuscitate you. It’s not as strong as the real thing. But it can do what it needs to...for now, at least.'

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[taking_pains]

Why am I here?

In your realm.

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[voidhearts]

'This is not my realm. This particular place is called the Spiraling Sea. In a more general sense… … …’

‘I know her by her true name. You know her as ‘Hex’. This is her Heart. And I am its guardian.’

'And I too would like to know why you are here.'

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[taking_pains]

I am in... Hex's heart.

How is such a thing possible?

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[voidhearts]

'Clearly, it is, or, you wouldn't be here.'

'Were I forced to guess, I would say this is the latest trick of the Fae.'

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[feralshepherd]

[Oh hi, timey wimey happening, but she is here, a little feral, but moving over to him and has to look him over]

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[taking_pains]

- Poppy?

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[feralshepherd]

[She makes a concerned whine, grabbing his hand.]

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[taking_pains]

[Takes it, careful]

Are you all right?

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[feralshepherd]

[Another whine and she leans against him and her other hand taps his shoulder insistently.]

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[taking_pains]

[...wraps? An arm around her? Carefully??]

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[feralshepherd]

[Well, this is fine.]

[Give her a few minutes to get her wisdom save in place.]

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[feralshepherd]

[EXCUSE YOU, I GOT STABBED IN THE CHEST.]

[And woke up to someone she Doesn't Know.]

[So that's gonna be a kick at the vaguely human blob, SORRY.]

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[voidhearts]

[Her foot goes clean through his chest with a wet 'SPLOTCH' noise.]

[He looks down at it. Then he looks back up at her.]

'That's fair.'

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[feralshepherd]

[She actually snarls, jerking her foot back and scrambling away to get more space, looking around and-]

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[voidhearts]

[His chest shifts around her, opening up so it's easier for her to pull it out. His physical from seems very, uh. Malleable.

She may stumble a bit in the 'water' beneath her, bobbing up and down, but with some trying, she'll eventually be able to stand. The shadowy figure doesn't pursue her at all, letting her have her space.]

'You were attacked. I brought you here to resuscitate you.'

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[feralshepherd]

[She is going to FUSS AT SPECTRE A MINUTE.]

[It seems that is calming the feral snapping.]

[She looks over at the blob, looking him over slowly.]

[At least she's listening.]

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[voidhearts]

'I have something that may help.'

[Ocean sounds play in the background. Except despite the fact that you're standing in an ocean, it doesn't sound like the ocean around you, it sounds like somebody played a recording of ocean sounds. You can hear a seagull.

Very soothing!]

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[feralshepherd]

..... [Unimpressed.]

[Especially when her powers are messed with AGAIN.]

[She is going to hover around Spectre and just.]

[Close her eyes.]

[Because she can with him here.]

[And breathe.]

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[voidhearts]

[He'll be right here when she wants to talk, or, more likely, he'll keep talking to Spectre, since she's in earshot and it all applies to her too anyway.]